iPhone App - Mint

I had requested a few months ago a Vista Gadget for Mint and my wish was granted =). Now with the release of the iPhone 2.0 Software, I’m curious to know if someone thought of creating a iPhone App for Mint!

Still, with the advent of the App Store, we can now move beyond web-apps. This was what so many developers complained about with the initial launch of the iPhone, not having the ability to develop natively for the device.

Using mobile-safari as an operating system, or go between, just seems cumbersome and archaic. Have the developers out there settled for mobile browser apps? Or could something more comprehensive, streamlined and powerful be developed to run as a client-side app for mint and the iPhone come to fruition?

With the climate of responses so far, I could count a lot of applications in the app-store as being “good enough for just mobile safari” too. But people still flock to the app store to download them.

Sure, I could fire up safari, navigate to xboxlive.com and log in, then navigate through to see what friends are online. But I opted to download a free app that can narrow down the access to that information; streamlining the process. Think of one app tracking multiple installs at once, selecting what peppers you want to load or be active on the phone. (I hate waiting to load all the peppers on my iPhone that I have loaded on the server. Normally, I’m only after a few stats via my phone just to “check in.”)

In short, I would gladly pay for a native Mint iPhone App, already on top of the price for mint itself.

If I’m crazy, so be it, thanks for listening/reading… :-) Love mint, love what everyone has done for it, keep up the great work!

There is really no need to make a mint app for iPhone, it already exists sort of. I’ve also found a way to make a web-app by just saving the bookmark, but you can also make it chromeless and have a startup screen like an ordinary iPhone app (if you’ve tried Fever its the same thing).

Here’s a step by step guide if you want to do the same as me.

First of all navigate to /mint/apps/includes and edit head.php
Add the following code after <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Close and upload the newly modified head.php
*Note I use Mint Chocolate style, hence I have make the status bar black. I’ve not tried but I assume you can change it to white aswell i.e. <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="white" /> - I think you can only set it to black or white.

It might take a few weeks before the whole thing is ready, since I’m having to build some custom PHP backend in order for it to work perfectly, but I love using it already. I don’t mean to spam, but if you want to keep up with latest updates on the actual app, I post updates on my blog at http://dot29.tumblr.com